Leaders, scholars, organizers, and community members from across the country gathered in Montgomery, Alabama on March 12–13, 2026, for the second annual Fred Gray Institute National Symposium. Over two days, the program moved between memory and action — honoring the leaders who built the first civil rights movement while equipping a new generation to confront today’s fights over voting rights, due process, education, and medical justice. The highlight reel below captures the spirit of that gathering: a convening shaped by digital organizing, multigenerational coalitions, and the conviction Attorney Fred D. Gray has voiced again and again — that the struggle for equal justice has not ended.
